倒數韻

倒數韻

                

山毛櫸銀皮和蠟妝

黃樺的樹皮和色黃

柳樹枝長。

 

紋楓中的綠色條新，

蘋果葉子的顏色純，

楊樹皮勻。

 

楊樹蒼白宛如月明，

軛和倉梁橡木製成，

千斤榆生。

 

山毛櫸銀皮和腔藏

接骨木的莖，高而黃

柳樹枝長。

 

Counting-Out Rhyme

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.